What rises
2026

What Rises moves against itself. Washed layers of green flow downward with the weight of water and gravity, while clusters of embedded mark-making – built up through repeated inscription of gestural writing, pastels and oil sticks – travel in the opposite direction, upward and to the right. The painting holds that tension without resolving it. The source text speaks of ragged clips ripped into life, of something voracious and vital weaving together despite – or because of – its own unfocused energy. What accumulates on the surface is not chaos but counter-movement: the insistence of mark against flow, of language against dissolution. Something rising.

Ragged clips ripped into the life,
Weaves together in exhilarating effect,
Voracious, if at times,
Unfocused is infectious and vital

150 × 120cm
Acrylic, pastels, graphite, chalk and oil stick on canvas